CD cover with Matching CD

I really like how these two interact with eachother. It's basically pretty much copied from cover to CD. So maybe they could of been at least a little bit more creative. But its nice to open up a case and see that you are looking at the same thing in a CD and will be able to understand what the CD is telling you. I do believe thay could have changed the inside a little bit but it overall in my opinion I believe it works fine.

CD Cover with buildings

This is a neat cover. I like how the tops of the building are peaking through the bottom of the cover. It would be cool to use a picture of the carroll campus and have it along the bottom of the case but some how tie in my color scheme from my kiosk into the case. I really want my case to capture the eye of someone, and lead them to think Carroll is really cool and fun and pretty and so on.

Female CD case

I really like the typography on this CD case. The colors all mesh well together. I really like the warm colors and I feel like it really sticks out to females, with its small typography and the female illustration dancing. I like the open space behind the female dancer. The tan color is really pretty and even though the text is small and colors are kind of similar to background, it is still easy to read.

Simple CD case

This is a cool CD. It is simple. It is not eye catching to me, but it does the job. It has a simple design going along the Cd and want to look away because the text to me is boring. I feel like the text should be on the dover or the inside cover. I feel like the actual CD should be could looking because that will the be the last thing the person sees when they put the CD in to watch whatever pops up. But this does work and I like the color scheme. I like the open white space. It works but its not the best (in my opinion).

Green CD

This is a neat CD case and cover too! I like this idea. I love how the bold colors contrast each other and the green really stick out. I could do something like this for my Carroll Community Cd. It would tie in with my kiosk because in my kiosk I used a color scheme of black, grays, and white. I could do something like this using that color scheme and it could still grab the attention of the person holding it. I want my design to be cool looking and this right here is a start.

Fleet Boxes CD

I really like this one! I love the Cd cover. It obviously has been cut out and we aren't allowed to do that with out cases but it is very clean and cool looking. I like how the case is triangular then and gray and black. Then you look at the CD and it is covered with triangular pieces but it colorful. It is neat how you see then when you put it inside that case. It is a really neat design. I think it would be so cool to design Indie/Rock/alternative CD's. They would be so cool looking and for some reason this one really catches my eye. I like it a lot!

Visa Cd Case

This CD is very profession al looking. You can tell it is done for a bigger company than for a band or something like that. It uses a sharper and more cleaner imagery and has a professional looking font. It is obviously for Visa which of course is professional. It is cool how the CD inside matches the CD case. I like the Big open white space. I learned that designers are scared of big open white spaces, and need to not be. So I think they did a good job leaving the rest of the CD white with the ribbon going across and a nice little tag hanging off of it like a present.

Cool CD design

This is a cool CD case. it is very clever. I like how they took the circle and used it in the design. I know most people do that but I like it and I want to do something like that for my case as well. I like how he made the circle the top of his pipe/bowl thingy. It is a cool illustration and I believe it catches anyones eye to look at it and determine what it is. I want my CD case to do that. But in a more professional way, since it will be a college based promotion CD.

Beautiful Photography Website

AHHH I love how this home page for this website looks. I love the photo this photographer took. The colors in it are beautiful. I love how they match up the type to a certain color theme. The typography to me is awesome and it is very professional looking. This kind of stuff grabs my attention. Really clean and sharp looking. It makes a piece look so much more professionl. I love the font choice in this piece. The only thing that is bugging me right now the the name in the top right corner. I don't like how its blending into the tree and the sky. But overall I really like this Homepage and I think it works wonderfully for a photographer.

Wood Navigation Bar

This is a pretty neat navigation bar. It is duplicating a piece of wood. I could see this being used to a school classroom website to represent the outline of a chalkboard or even for a hardwire website. The person who created it did a good job making it look like wook with the colors added to the navigation bar and using that dark brown in the background as well. It doesn't specify anywhere that it is supposed to be mocking wood, but i have a strong sense it is. I think its cool to theme your navigation bar to your website and this is done very well here.

Lightbulb website

This is a really cool looking website. Our focus in this class is Kiosk's but looking at websites help give me and idea of what I want to to. I love the dark look to this piece. I love how the lightbulb represents and idea and how the reflection is giving off a gold color onto the other lightbulbs. It is very clever because the name of the gold club is called Golden Ocala. They did a wonderful job choosing the colors carefully and picking out an image that really bring together this website. I also love how they added the aqua blue! All the colors in this stand out beautifully to me and I love how it is done. I'd like to create something like this.

Beach photos

I really like how the buttons are on this website. All the photos can be seen as thumbnails inside a black gradient space. Even though all the pictures are of the beach, it follows a very warm and gorgeous color scheme. It looks very professional to me. I like how it looks a lot and I want to keep navigating through the website because of it. I think that is very important when planning out you website or kiosk, because you want to draw people in and wanting to see more.

Cool Navigation Bar

This is a really cool navigation bar. I really like how it looks like it is lighting up when you scrub over the top of the button. It reminds me of techno type computer based music. Its very cool how the navigation bar also looks somewhat 3 dimensional. This would be really cool to use in the future in a music website or something. It is aesthetically pleasing to look at and keeps the viewer interested.

10 tips on audio

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/173082/10-tips-for-using-audio-more-effectively-in-multimedia-stories/

This is a really cool website that gives you ten tips on how to use audio more efficiently when making when making a video piece. There are usually four type of sounds used when making video pieces: Ambient, interview clips, voice-overs, and Natural sounds. It is very good to figure out what you need to aim towards before putting the sound in your piece. This website is helpful in telling you what works and what doesn't. I will have to remember to look back on this piece when dealing with audio, because it is a large part of your piece and doing a poorly done audio can turn off the whole audience.

Bamboo and Orange Commercials

http://s312920572.onlinehome.us/tkodesign/wordpress/multimedia/

This website shows two different multimedia pieces that were made for certain companies. the orange one i would say is much better than the bamboo one. It is cool because I learned somewhat who to edit the text the way it was edited in the orange commercial. I thought the typography worked better in the orange commercial, but i wasn't too sure about the clapping at the beginning and end. In the bamboo piece, I really didn't like the randomness of it. I think it could work a lot more on the typography and pieces didn't lay on the screen in a very pretty well. their wasn't any flow, they just looked plopped on there. I think It could use a lot of work. Although i did like the music in it and it really did a good job matching with the culture in which you find most bamboo.

Garage Band for Audi Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8E2MmfqrIQ
This person made audio in garageband for this car commercial. It was a project they had to do! I think the person did a wonderful job making the music go well with the piece. The music they picked at the beginning is very popular in garageband i feel like. I hear it a lot, but it worked well and I think the person did very strongly in making it match the video. I would maybe change the beginning part to something different since that sound is very popular but besides that I personally think everything else works very well.

Kiosk scroll overs

http://www.campusdish.com/en-US/CSNE/Vassar/Locations/TheKiosk.htm

This is a cool kiosk. I like how it is set up. I want my kiosk to look similar to this with the buttons on the left side and a picture on the top middle with text underneath. I can start to see how adobe flash is used when scrolling over certain buttons. When I scroll over the left hand text on this page, the background box turns yellow and I can easily tell that is a link to something else. Also at the top of the page there are words such as "Menus, Location, meal plans, etc." When i scroll over top of them, little picture appear that you would normally see associated with those words. I really like how that happens, and it is cool because even though i am very new to flash, I can kind of see how that was made possible.

After Effects basic edits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDIzptRU9Q
I was looking around to see what all you can do in after effects. I really like making videos and I finally downloaded after effects onto my computer with premiere and want to learn how to use premiere in editing the videos I make. I look up some stuff on youtube and saw this. Even though you know it is edited in and the colors don't match up right with his piece it would still be so cool to learn how to do these basic edits. Im really into video and feel like I could do some crazy awesome stuff If I learned how to use the softwares to their maximum potential. I can't wait till I get to that point.